MAPUTO (FIBA World Championship for Women) - Mozambique, the runners-up at AfroBasket Women 2013 which they hosted, beat the continental champions Angola in three games held in the country's capital of Maputo earlier this week.

The revamped Angolan team showed in the Maputo tournament - which was expected to include FIBA Americas champions Cuba - without any of the players that helped the country to clinch its consecutive continental trophy in September.

In its first warm-up games since taking part in the Lusophone Games in India at the start of the year, Mozambique remained unbeaten against Angola in four meetings and never trailed throughout the three games.

Mozambique opened the tournament with a 70-37 win, followed by a 46-42 success and closed out with a 64-59 triumph.

Rising stars Merciana Fernandes, Rosa Gala and Ana Goncalves sparked the African champions, while Leia Dongue remained the key Mozambique player.

Head coach Nasir Sale was able to count the services of most players that featured for Mozambique last summer.

Both teams sealed the two places on offer for African teams for the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women, which will be held in September in Turkey.

"It was a good test before we hold training camps overseas," said head coach Nasir Sale whose team will take on Group B opponents France, Canada and hosts Turkey in the capital city of Ankara.

Before Mozambique makes it debut in the World Championship, Nasir and his squad are due to carry out training camps in Japan and France.

Although Nadir Manuel, Sonia Guadalupe, Luisa Tomas and Fineza Eusebio are expected to line up for Angola at Turkey 2014, the quartet missed the Maputo warm-up event for personal reasons.

Angola is to square off against Serbia, USA and China in Group D in Istanbul.

Head coach Anibal Moreira said: "We are revamping our national team and this tournament has helped us to measure the potential of some players that I am going to take to the World Championship."

FIBA